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Document Collaboration

Meeting channels in Copera let you open a shared document directly inside an active meeting so every participant can read and edit it in real time. Instead of switching between a video call and a separate document editor, you get both side by side -- discuss changes live while making them together on the same page.

Starting a collaborative document​

Any participant can create a new document from the meeting control bar. Click the collaboration menu and select New document. A rich-text editor appears as a shared tile in the meeting grid, visible and editable by everyone on the call.

If a document was created during a previous session of the same meeting channel, you can reopen it instead of starting from scratch. Select Open document and choose a past document from the list.

Real-time co-editing​

The document editor is built on Tiptap with Yjs collaboration, which means every keystroke is synced across all participants instantly. You can see other people's cursors and selections highlighted in different colors, making it easy to follow who is editing which section.

The editor supports standard rich-text formatting:

  • Headings -- structure your document with heading levels.
  • Bold, italic, strikethrough -- emphasize text inline.
  • Lists -- ordered and unordered lists for structured content.
  • Code blocks -- inline code and fenced code blocks.
  • Links -- add hyperlinks to reference external resources.
  • Tables -- insert and edit tables for tabular data.
  • Task lists -- create checklists for action items.

Viewing during the meeting​

The document tile appears in the meeting grid alongside camera, screen-sharing, and whiteboard tiles. Click on it to enter focus mode, which gives the editor more horizontal space for comfortable editing. Other participants' video feeds move to a compact sidebar while the document takes center stage.

Saving and accessing after the meeting​

Documents are saved automatically as you type. When the document is closed or the meeting ends, all content is preserved. You can access meeting documents in two ways:

  1. Session history -- open the meeting channel's Sessions tab to find the document listed under the session in which it was created.
  2. Docs -- the document is also available in the workspace Docs section, where you can continue editing it outside of a meeting context.

Closing the document​

To close the document during a meeting, click the Stop document button in the collaboration menu. The document tile disappears from the meeting grid, but all content remains saved. You can reopen it at any time during the same session or in a future session.